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alienating

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1. alienating - Adjective

2. alienating - Verb

4. alienating - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Alienate

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. Sigmund Freud

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. Fidel Castro

Indeed, some revolutionaries brand as innocents, dreamers, or even reactionaries; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men. Paulo Freire

At first Laing found something alienating about the concrete landscape of the project - an architecture designed for war, on the unconscious level if no other. J. G. Ballard

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for. David Mamet

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished. Meles Zenawi

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